Re: Canadian Mist Black Diamond

Where Canadian whisky is strongest, particularly in the Great Lakes states, my parents generation may have drunk bourbon on the rocks but they used "rye" (i.e., Canadian) for manhatttans and other mixed drinks. In some places, American and Canadian blends were used interchangeably but all mixed drinks that called for whiskey were made with blends. That's starts to fall off as you go south, even within Ohio or Indiana, for example.

That's not so much the case now. Modern cocktail culture eschews blends. The manhattan was probably originally made with American straight rye whiskey and that's what purists use now, but plenty of people use bourbon.